David Halberstam, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author who chronicled the Washington press corps, the Vietnam War generation and baseball, was killed in a car crash early on April 23, 2007, in Menlo Park, south of San Francisco. He was 73.
Fireworks light up a big book placed at the Bolivar square, in downtown Bogota on April 23, 2007, to celebrate that Colombia's capital was designated by UNESCO as the World Book Capital City 2007.
Visitors look for books during the festivities of Sant Jordi at the Ramblas of Barcelona, Spain, on April 23, 2007. On this day, men give roses to women, who give them a book in return.
Children's books in several languages are displayed at the Owatonna, Minn., Public Library on April 10, 2007. The shelves of libraries across Minnesota are swelling with books and other material catering to the state's most recent immigrants, mostly Hispanics, Somalis and Hmong.
Author Nathan Englander sips a coffee at one of his favorite neighborhood diners in New York on April 12, 2007. Alfred A. Knopf has just published Englander's first novel, "The Ministry of Special Cases," about a Jewish family living through Argentina's "dirty war."
David Gest is seen at the book signing for his autobiography, "Simply the Gest," at Waterstones in London on April 21, 2007. A producer and concert promoter, Gest is perhaps best known for his short-lived marriage to actress Liza Minelli.
Brian Groh talks about his novel, "Summer People," which he wrote in the upstairs room of his late grandmother's 1876 farmhouse in Lawrenceburg, Ind., April 6, 2007. The author's debut novel draws on a summer spent with the upper crust during a summer retreat in Maine.
Author Conn Iggulden, who wrote "Dangerous Book for Boys," is all smiles at Harper Collins in London on March 30, 2007. Exuding the brisk breeziness of Boy Scout manuals and Boy's Own annuals, "The Dangerous Book" is a childhood how-to guide that covers everything from paper airplanes to go-carts, skipping stones to skinning a rabbit.
In this photo provided by Aperture Foundation, an Israeli woman named Kinneret Boosany poses in her home in Tel Aviv in January 2004. The photo is among those by photographer Gillian Laub in her book, "Testimony." The book, Laub's first, contains 50 portraits of people living in Israel, including the combustible West Bank.
An undated photo supplied and stylized by Miramax Books shows Lucinda Franks and her father. In her new book, "My Father's Secret War: A Memoir," Franks unravels the war experiences that haunted her father and her family's life.
The Dalai Lama, Tibet's spiritual leader, talks during the first day of the five-day Mind Life Conference XIV at his residence in Dharmsala, India, on April 9, 2007. Renowned scientists from the U.S and Europe discussed with the Dalai Lama ideas taken from his book, "Universe in a Single Atom: the Convergence of Science and Spirituality."
Author Paulo Coelho launches his latest book, "The Witch of Portobello" in Dubai on April 8, 2007.
Spencer, Iowa, public librarian Vicki Myron is seen with a cat named Dewey Readmore Books on Nov. 23, 2002, at the public library where Dewey lived. Myron has signed a $1.2 million deal with New York-based Grand Central Publishing, formerly Warner Books, to write the story of Dewey's life, how it intertwined with hers, and the impact his life had on others. Dewey died in 2006.
Ishmael Beah, 26, responds to questions during an interview on Feb. 8, 2007, in Brooklyn, N.Y. Beah's book, "A Long Way Gone," details his days as a child soldier in Sierra Leone.
Jacob Cortez, 16, a sophomore at Flagstaff, Ariz., High School and the author of "The Legend of the Teenage Sages," is shown on Feb. 10, 2007. Cortez had a book signing at Hastings Book Music Video in Flagstaff.
Missouri State Rep. Rodney Hubbard holds up a copy of "Missouri's Black Heritage" and recommends it to college students in the audience after one of the book's authors, Gary Kremer, testified during a House Special Committee on Urban Affairs hearing on Feb. 27, 2007, at Lincoln University, in Jefferson City, Mo.
Friends of Molly Ivins clap along to "Great Balls of Fire," sung by Marcia Ball, at the closing of a memorial service for the Texas columnist and author on Feb. 4, 2007, at First United Methodist Church in Austin, Texas. Ivins, a best-selling author and syndicated columnist whose work appeared in more than 400 newspapers, died Jan. 31 at age 62 after a long battle with breast cancer.
Author David Mamet reads a chapter from his book "Bambi vs. Godzilla" at Book Soup in Los Angeles on Feb. 6, 2007.
Author P.J. O'Rourke poses for a portrait at Book Soup in Los Angeles on Feb. 5, 2007.
Robert Graysmith, author of "Zodiac" and "Zodiac Unmasked", views cryptographs used by the Zodiac killer in San Francisco. The killer is blamed for at least five murders in 1968 and 1969 in the San Francisco Bay Area. He was never caught, though many, including Graysmith, believe he was Arthur Leigh Allen, a Vallejo man who who died in 1992. The film, "Zodiac," was based on Graysmith's 1986 true-crime book.